I’d been thinking it might involve his son — the only person he’d maybe hesitate to go all-out against, and who has a built-in ‘well, yeah, I guess he can dish out that much damage’ justification right there in the story — but the latest bit with Sage has me wondering.
She spells out, slowly and patiently, that Deep sure needs to be careful when using that lobotomy tool on her: yes, unlike humans, she has a superbrain that’s fine maybe two hours after it gets scraped bloody, provided you hit nothing else when going in right by the eye. But, seriously: “avoid the eye itself; I don’t want to go blind.”
Now, maybe that’s just setting up a self-contained little story — where Deep will eventually fuck things up for her, lining up a shot at her superbrain but lethally mangling a part of her body that isn’t super, tee hee hee, look at the look on her face, look at the look on his face, she’s been ruined by her own vice — but what if the reason to focus on her ‘superbrain in a body that can otherwise get scraped like ours’’ schtick is to contrast with the brain in Homelander’s superbody? Oh, sure, avoid the eye itself — because it’d bounce right off the eye — but maybe an avoid-the-eye scrape of his brain would do the trick?
There has to be at least some kind of final confrontation between Ryan and Homelander; they’ve been setting it up for multiple seasons.
I hope we get to see more of Derek Wilson as Tek Knight before the end. I had to be satisfied with his brief voice cameo on the most recent episode (“What dark, dirty hole could they be hiding in?”)
P.S. I sat through the whole off-key rendition of “Up Where We Belong” that played during the ending credits.
AFAICT, when he and Maeve eventually came to blows, she punched him in the face and blood obligingly came out of his nose; and when she hit him in the ear, well, blood came out of his ear; and, whenever one of her strikes missed or got dodged or whatever, the ensuing property damage was — nifty, but not that nifty.
So — what? Yeah, he shrugs off conventional firearms, but (a) there’s some amount of kinetic force that’s already been shown to be more than enough to injure him, and (b) the threshold doesn’t appear to be crazy high: more than a bullet, but less than — what?
Didn’t they literally drop a train on him at one point? I would think he’s pretty resilient. I’m betting Maeve packs quite a punch, just know how to pull back when she misses the mark.
He feels pain. We found that out in ep. 4. Don’t know how well he can keep functioning under continuous intense pain. And he’s psychologically vulnerable.
I agree. But: how much of a punch? No, seriously: how hard is she supposed to be hitting? Would a wall take more damage from one non-pull-back punch from her, or from, say, a nuclear bomb detonating right next to it?
The bit at the Vought On Ice thing lost me. It was approximately the 89th time The Boys have engaged in an operation where they have to go somewhere surreptitiously to gather information or steal something or whatever and completely screw it up and yet somehow escape. Some nameless extras were killed. Oooh, how crazy! Look at all the blood gushing out of this meaningless stuntperson-played background character!
When the show started one of the things they left you thinking of was, how are they going to defeat seemingly invincible superheroes? Especially Homelander, who’s effectively a god? But that tension’s gone. Homelander is either not present, or killing someone you’ve never seen before, or inexplicably CAN’T kill them for no real reason (like at Vought On Ice) or, when they are confronted by a superhero, some sort of deal is struck or “you can’t kill me because of this plot armor” thing. It’s just plodding along, coming up with excuses for angry-but-inconclusive confrontations, and to make the show seem like it’s still edgy they kill a few extras in gruesome ways every episode. Never anyone who matters though.
I’ll probably stick with it to the bitter end, thanks to my accursed completionist disorder. Honestly, I find the cuckoo bananas mayhem and carnage kinda fun. But it’s a bit less fun for me when I reflect that nearly half of my fellow citizens would be rooting for Vought and Homelander and the rest of that crowd.
And there was a brief mention early in this season that it “still wasn’t strong enough to kill Homelander”.
I have to wonder if they’re going to go another way with this. Part of the big theme here is that the Bad Guys always seem to be the winners. No matter what The Boys and their associates do, the crap just keeps on coming. Maybe it ends with Homelander as King of the World, with everyone bowing down to him.
I mean, even if they take down Vought, kill Homelander, pass the anti-supes bill, well, everything that Vought knows about making Supes is still out there. There’s no reason to think someone else won’t re-create their work, and produce more Supes to take over the world.
Yup. The “turn America into a fascist dictatorship” plot was sort of on the back burner (which was pretty soothing for me, considering everything that’s happening on that front IRL), and when I saw those sheep tear into that bull, especially after what those chickens did, I actually started singing it myself. When the closing credits started playing it, I practically busted a gut.
I did wonder why they didn’t collect some fluids from the sheep that died from the virus. Frenchie’s a pretty decent chemist; I’m sure he could have isolated it from some samples (of course, turning himself in for murder would complicate that).
I wasn’t terribly interested in the Hugh Sr. story line, but I get a kick out of all the heavy-handed satire in the show. Phases 7-12 of the Voughtiverse, including “A-Train: Into The Multiverse” and “Teenage Kix: Home for Kwanzaa 2”? And Tek Knight’s new reboot “THE Tek Knight” with twelve minutes of pitch-black footage?
There was a brief mention of them in a TV newscast. Including showing Chance Perdomo’s character, who isn’t going to be recast for Gen V season 2, so who knows how they are going to handle that.